They played the next video, which was another employee interview.
A terrified-looking male intern faced the camera incoherently, his lips pale. Behind him, the streets were in chaos, with police cars and ambulances still arriving one after another. Suit-clad employees sat crying everywhere, their clothes disheveled.
"We were downstairs. Before the alarm went off, we heard gunshots and people shouting upstairs."
"My colleague and I were in the restroom. After we heard the commotion, my colleague looked up and said, 'What happened upstairs? Should we go take a look?' I said, 'That doesn't sound right. Something feels wrong. I want to go downstairs.'"
"When we left the restroom, some people were already waiting for the elevator with terrified expressions, but everyone was still relatively calm overall. We could even discuss what had happened upstairs. My colleague and I hesitated and didn't get into the elevator. Then the second elevator arrived and went straight upstairs. The alarm went off too, and that was when we realized people were being killed upstairs."
"Everyone on our entire floor crowded around the elevator doors, desperately hammering the buttons to get out. Then shouts suddenly came from inside the elevator shaft. They were so close, right above our heads. Someone said, 'Could the shooter be upstairs?'"
"Then gunshots rang out from inside the elevator shaft. They were deafening. We could hear the people inside the elevator car screaming like mad. We hurriedly canceled the elevator call, and then blood suddenly began pouring down from the elevator doors. It was like a wall-mounted fountain, with a huge sheet of blood cascading down and completely covering the doors. Everyone was so terrified that they turned and ran for the stairs."
"There was a stampede on the stairs. People kept shouting that someone had been stepped on and